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Green Cards For DREAMERS? Report Says White House Is Prepared To Make Big Immigration Offer

Emily Zanotti

Axios reports Wednesday that the White House is considering offering a “path to permanent residency” for the more than 700,000 “DREAMers,” in return for extending funding on the border wall and an end to the partial government shutdown.

Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner reportedly came up with the idea as a way to break the “congressional deadlock,” but the idea appears to have been circling for some time among more moderate congressional Republicans looking to pass a comprehensive immigration reform package rather than simple funding for President Donald Trump’s signature anti-illegal immigration method, the border wall.

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